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New - Portfolio Manager Expert Interview

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Curious to know what it’s really like to work in portfolio management? Get the answer to this and many more questions in our new expert interview with wealth manager, John Correia!

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Curious to know what it’s really like to work in portfolio management? Get the answer to this and many more questions in our new expert interview with wealth manager, John Correia!

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10 Minutes

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Portfolio Manager Expert Interview

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  • Meet a portfolio manager
  • How did you begin your career
  • Main responsibilities and skills
  • Why portfolio management
  • Challenges of working in portfolio management
    and more!

The Investment Management Industry

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Discover all aspects of the asset management industry, key players, regulatory considerations, and develop an understanding of a client’s investment objectives.

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Discover all aspects of the asset management industry, key players, regulatory considerations, and develop an understanding of a client’s investment objectives.

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1 Hour

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Intro to Asset Management

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  • How the investment management process works
  • Asset classes (cash, debt, equity, and alternatives)
  • Types of investors
  • Wealth management and more!

Investors, Institutional and Retail

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  • Retail investors vs institutional investors
  • Pension funds
  • Insurance companies
  • Endowments
  • Sovereign wealth funds
  • Types of retail investors

The Investment Policy Statement

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  • Purpose of the Investment Policy Statement
  • Objectives: risk and return
  • Liquidity constraint
  • Time Horizon constraint
  • Tax Status, Legal and Regulatory constraint

US Regulatory Considerations

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  • Fiduciary responsibilities
  • ERISA
  • UPMIFA
  • Regulatory agencies – SEC
  • Regulatory agencies – FINRA
  • Regulatory agencies – state agencies

Economic Analysis & Asset Allocation

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Assess the impact of the economy, business cycle, central banks, regulation, and general market trends on investment decisions. Learn the key aspects of portfolio theory, investment exposure, measures, benchmarks, analysis, and behavioral factors.

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4.5 Hours

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Skills Certificate

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Assess the impact of the economy, business cycle, central banks, regulation, and general market trends on investment decisions. Learn the key aspects of portfolio theory, investment exposure, measures, benchmarks, analysis, and behavioral factors.

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4.5 Hours

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Monetary Systems

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  • Role of Central Banks
  • Monetary Policy
  • Fiscal Policy

Understanding Economic Cycles

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  • Global Economics – Trade Advantages
  • Global Economics – Balance of Payments
  • Stages of the Business Cycle

Macroeconomic Indicators

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  • Leading Indicators
  • Coincident Indicators
  • Lagging Indicators
  • Price Level Indicators

Portfolio Risk

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  • Types of Risk

Portfolio Risk and Return

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  • Portfolio Risk Measures (recap)
  • Measuring Risk and Beta
  • Covariance and Correlation
  • Benefits of Diversification

Modern Portfolio Theory

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  • Modern Portfolio Theory
  • Capital Asset Pricing Model
  • Security Market Line
  • Black-Litterman Model
  • Robust Optimization
  • Arbitrage Pricing Theory

Behavioral Finance

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  • Introduction to Behavioral Finance
  • Heuristic-driven biases
  • Frame dependence

Goals Based Investing

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  • Purpose of goals based investing
  • How does goals based investing work
  • Practical example goals based investing
  • Comparison with traditional approach

Security Selection

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Identify the techniques that can be used to analyze and value individual stocks. Explore traditional and exotic equity investment options, and the opportunities offered by different products.

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7.5 Hours

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Identify the techniques that can be used to analyze and value individual stocks. Explore traditional and exotic equity investment options, and the opportunities offered by different products.

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7.5 Hours

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Overview - Active vs Passive Investing

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  • Active vs Passive Investing
  • Identifying closet index funds
  • Active Investing

Index Investing

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  • What is an index?
  • Index construction methodologies
  • How indexes are used
  • The role of the index provider
  • Benefits of index investing
  • How to construct an index portfolio

Equity Investment Vehicles

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  • Mutual Funds
  • ETFs
  • Other Equity Investment Vehicles

Equity - Investment Characteristics

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  • Common stock
  • Preferred securities
  • Convertible bonds
  • Indices
  • Exchange Traded Funds
  • Equity multiples
  • Enterprise multiples

Market Sectors

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  • Market sector classifications
  • Industrial vs financial sectors

Equity - Emerging Markets

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  • Overview of emerging markets
  • Definition of emerging markets
  • Emerging markets and growth
  • Emerging markets and risk

Fixed Income Portfolio Management

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  • Active vs passive fixed income portfolio management
  • Macaulay and modified duration
  • Convexity
  • DV01
  • Liability driven investing
  • Cash flow matching and more!

Alternative Investments

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  • Alternative vs traditional asset classes
  • Hedge funds
  • Private equity
  • Commodities
  • Real estate
  • Foreign exchange

Technical Analysis

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  • Introduction to technical analysis
  • Trend analysis
  • Support and resistance

ESG Investing

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  • Introduction to ESG
  • Materiality
  • Benchmarking Analysis
  • Environmental, Social and Governance Metrics
  • Scenario Analysis

The Accountant

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Quickly and confidently interpret financial data and statements, evaluate them and use the calculated information to build high-quality reports. Real company data and the latest rules are covered to ensure the methods used and skills developed are immediately applicable in the workplace.

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13 Hours

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Skills Certificate

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Quickly and confidently interpret financial data and statements, evaluate them and use the calculated information to build high-quality reports. Real company data and the latest rules are covered to ensure the methods used and skills developed are immediately applicable in the workplace.

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13 Hours

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Skills Certificate

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Financial Accounting Review

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  • Making entries and ensuring the balance sheet balances
  • Preparing a balance sheet
  • Preparing an income statement from the entries to retained earnings
  • Preparing a cash flow statement from the entries to the cash account
  • A review of the different categorizations on the income statement, balance sheet, and the cash flow statement

Income Statements

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  • Revenue recognition issues
  • Cost recognition issues
  • Identifying non-recurring items from the income statement, the MD&A, the notes to the accounts and the financial statement press release
  • Calculating EBIT and EBITDA for the historical year, and on an LTM basis

Earnings Per Share

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  • Basic EPS calculations including weighted average shares
  • Dilutive securities: options (treasury method) and convertibles (as if converted)
  • Calculating recurring EPS

Working Capital

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  • Inventory accounting including the impact on EBIT of LIFO and FIFO accounting choices (where relevant)
  • Accounts receivable and bad debts (identifying when companies are manipulating sales)
  • Accounts payable and accruals and the difference between them from a due diligence perspective
  • Other items including taxes payable, deferred revenue, and pre-paid items
  • Working capital and operating working capital and the cash impact of changes in operating working capital
  • Credit implications of working capital movements
  • Day ratios

Non-Current Assets

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  • Gross PP&E, accumulated depreciation, depreciation expense and net PP&E
  • Building a simple forecast of fixed assets
  • Establishing the age of a company’s fixed asset base
  • Finite, and infinite intangibles including goodwill
  • A review of key methods of accounting for financial investments
  • At fair value through the income statement
  • Available for sale
  • Associate (equity method) accounting

Capital Structure

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  • Debt issues and repurchases
  • Simple yield to maturity and all in cost calculations and understanding Original Issuer Discounts
  • Calculating net debt
  • Equity issuance and repurchases
  • The difference between authorized, issued and outstanding shares and multiple share classes
  • Other capital items: preference shares and convertible bonds
  • Leverage ratios
  • Debt liability maturity analysis

Accounting Ratios

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  • Profitability ratios, including margins
  • Liquidity ratios, including operating working capital
  • EBIT and EBITDA for the historical year, and on an LTM basis
  • Leverage ratios, including net debt and interest coverage
    Asset ratios

Cash Flow Statements

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  • Understanding how to categorize cash flows between operating, investing, and financing
  • Deriving a cash flow statement from two balance sheets and an income statement
  • Deriving a balance sheet from a cash flow statement and an income statement
  • Different cash flow statement presentations

Equity Method Investments

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  • What are equity method investments?
    • Equity affiliates/associates
    • Joint ventures
  • Equity method accounting
    • Income statement
    • Balance sheet
    • Cash flow statement
    • Financial statement integration

Intro to Full Consolidation

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  • M&A accounting overview
  • Balance sheet consolidation
  • Sources and uses of funds
  • Goodwill calculation
  • Income statement consolidation
  • Non controlling interests – NCI

The Modeler

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Financial modeling is one of the most useful skills in the world of finance. Knowing how to build models quickly and error-free is critical for the decisions and recommendations that they underpin. Our online financial modeling course provides the perfect introduction to building models, developing multiple techniques for a comprehensive and practical understanding of the topic.

Completion time

12 Hours

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Skills Certificate

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Financial modeling is one of the most useful skills in the world of finance. Knowing how to build models quickly and error-free is critical for the decisions and recommendations that they underpin. Our online financial modeling course provides the perfect introduction to building models, developing multiple techniques for a comprehensive and practical understanding of the topic.

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12 Hours

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Introduction to Modeling

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  • Key settings
  • Formatting and layout standards
  • Building a simple income statement and balance sheet model, on one sheet, then across sheets
  • Balancing the balance sheet using the cash flow statement
  • Preparing the model for handover
  • Key formatting and putting the output into a pitch book

Three Statement Modeling with Iterations

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  • Income statement construction and highlighting key numbers
  • Calculation schedules (PP&E, retained earnings, operating working capital, and debt)
  • Balancing the balance sheet with a cash sweep
  • Calculating interest using average balances
  • Circular references and iterations
  • Working with a circular reference switch
  • Preparing the model for handover
  • Key formatting and putting the output into a pitch book

Three Statement Model Editing

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  • Steps before editing
  • Inserting a new item
  • Removing an old item
  • After editing
  • Relevant keyboard shortcut keys

Three Statement Model With Estimates

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  • Cleaning up the income statement and balance sheet and simplifying the line items
  • Getting estimates for revenues and EBIT
  • Building multiple scenarios into a model’s assumption
  • Modeling a forecast debt repayment schedule from the notes
  • Key ratios
  • Checking the model for reasonableness
  • Formatting and putting the output into a pitch book

Building a Model with Cash Sweep

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  • Why banks want to be repaid early
  • Cash sweep mechanisms
  • How to model cash sweeps
  • Building a three statement model with a cash sweep

Checking a Model for Integrity and Errors

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  • Top ten errors
  • Auditing and error checking toolkit
  • Checking your own model
  • Checking someone else’s model

The Valuer

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Learn how and when to utilize key valuation methodologies and their supporting calculations.

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12 Hours

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Skills Certificate

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Learn how and when to utilize key valuation methodologies and their supporting calculations.

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12 Hours

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Equity to Enterprise Value Bridge

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  • Calculating equity value
  • Calculating enterprise value
  • Non-core items, debt equivalent items, and non-controlling interests
  • Calculating simple multiples
  • Illustrating the impact of leverage
  • Understand how growth rates, returns and multiples interrelate

Trading Comparables

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  • Review choosing a comparable set of companies
  • Calculating enterprise value
  • Calculating LTM EBITDA and EBIT
  • Forward multiples and issues with consensus data
  • Understanding which operational ratios are important for the analysis

Transaction Comparables

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  • Reviewing data sources
  • Understanding different deal contexts
  • Calculating enterprise value and LTM EBITDA
  • Calculating premiums paid based on offer prices where appropriate
  • Calculating the synergies from the transactions as a % of target sales

WACC Analysis

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  • Capital Asset Pricing Model
  • Calculating the WACC for the peer group
  • Interpreting the results
  • Establish a reasonable cost of capital for the target company
  • WACC approach

Discounted Cash Flow Valuation

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  • Calculating free cash flows
  • Understanding how the operational ratios should develop over the financial forecast
  • Calculating the steady state and making relevant adjustments to the steady state cash flows
  • Making reasonable assumptions for long-term growth rates
  • Discounting to a deal date
  • Converting the enterprise value into an implied share price, making relevant adjustments for share options and restricted stock units

Pulling the Analysis Together

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  • Reviewing different valuation methods
  • Preparing valuation ranges for each valuation method
  • Summarizing the valuation ranges and interpreting the results

The Equities Trader

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Learn all aspects of equity sales and trading at an investment bank and utilize practical skills from day one.

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8 Hours

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Learn all aspects of equity sales and trading at an investment bank and utilize practical skills from day one.

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8 Hours

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Equity to Enterprise Value Bridge

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  • Calculating equity value
  • Calculating enterprise value
  • Non-core items, debt equivalent items, and non-controlling interests
  • Calculating simple multiples
  • Illustrating the impact of leverage
  • Understand how growth rates, returns and multiples interrelate

Equities Markets and Products

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Excel Exercises8

  • Cash equities
  • Different exchanges
  • Initial public offerings
  • Role of ECM versus trading desk

Special Situations

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  • Equity events: spin offs, share repurchases, asset sales
  • Fixed income events: debt restructuring, distressed debt
  • Private situations

Equity Derivatives

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  • Options, forwards, and futures
  • Asset swaps
  • Structured products
  • Hedging

The FICC Trader

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Learn all aspects of fixed income, currencies and commodities sales and trading at an investment bank.

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5.5 Hours

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Learn all aspects of fixed income, currencies and commodities sales and trading at an investment bank.

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5.5 Hours

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Rates Markets and Products

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  • US government bond market including TIPS and zero coupons
  • European government bond market including index linked Gilts, Gilt strips, and other inflation-linked bonds (e.g. Germany)
  • Asian government bond market including JGBi
  • Yield curve
  • Central bank activity and impact to capital markets

Credit Markets and Products

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  • Credit ratings
  • Credit spreads and implied risk premia
  • US corporate bond market
  • European corporate bond market
  • Bonds with specialist including puttable, callable, contingent capital (coco), CLOs, CDOs, convertibles, and exchangables
  • Bank loans
  • Calculating bond yields
  • Calculating bond prices
  • Role of DCM versus the trading desk

FX and Commodities

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  • FX definitions and quote methodology
  • FX spot market
  • Cross rates
  • Commodity markets

Fixed Income Derivatives

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  • Options, forwards, and futures
  • Interest rate swaps
  • Swaptions
  • Credit default swaps and credit default indices
  • FX and commodity derivatives
  • Structured products

Collateral Management

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  • What is collateral?
  • Types of collateral
  • Credit risk
  • Centralized clearing

Performance Measurement

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Learn how to build more efficient and resilient portfolios by measuring the returns and risks in a portfolio. Consider how the performance of portfolio managers is assessed, and the ways in which various divers of performance can be identified.

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Learn how to build more efficient and resilient portfolios by measuring the returns and risks in a portfolio. Consider how the performance of portfolio managers is assessed, and the ways in which various divers of performance can be identified.

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1 Hour

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Portfolio Performance

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  • Components of return
  • Absolute and relative performance
  • Rolling returns
  • Time-weighted and dollar-weighted returns

Benchmarks

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  • Introduction to benchmarks
  • Properties of a valid benchmark
  • Types of benchmarks

Equity Indices

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  • Introduction to equity indices
  • Types of indices
  • Market value weighted
  • Price weighted
  • Equal weighted
  • Fundamentally weighted

Risk Adjusted Measures

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  • Alpha
  • Sharpe Ratio
  • Treynor Ratio
  • Information Ratio

Attribution

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  • Allocation effect
  • Selection effect
  • Interaction effect
  • Factor tilt attribution

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